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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Family "Cyanocytaceae"

Name: "Cyanocytaceae" Hall and Claus 1963

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Cy.a.no.cy.ta’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Cyanocytaceae, the Cyanocyta family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ky-a-no-ky-TA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: "Cyanocyta" Hall and Claus 1963

Original publication: Hall WT, Claus G. ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDIES ON THE BLUE-GREEN ALGAL SYMBIONT IN CYANOPHORA PARADOXA KORSCHIKOFF. J Cell Biol 1963; 19:551-563.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Chroococcales corrig. Ardissone 1886

Assigned by: Hall WT, Claus G. ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDIES ON THE BLUE-GREEN ALGAL SYMBIONT IN CYANOPHORA PARADOXA KORSCHIKOFF. J Cell Biol 1963; 19:551-563.

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Record number: 4731

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